Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month on new editorial material by top writers and personalities (e.g., Phyllis McGinley, Moss Hart), v. $82,000 a month under Weise. Mayes also polished up McCall's color photography, has expanded McCall's autobiographical digests, and will publish excerpts from the lives of Art Linkletter, Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. The latest acquisition: U.S. rights for a two-part abridgement of Sir Anthony Eden's memoirs, costing...
...tool is yearly testing (aptitude v. achievement), an art that has come far since the old one-shot IQ score. The tests cannot measure inherent ability (testers used to think they could). They do determine "developed ability," a blend of innate talents and outer influences, which can be changed by home and school. With his wiggly blocks and foolish questions. the guidance man strikes some parents as a dangerous bore: George will go to Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family...
...nation's young artists. To make a great abstraction is difficult-perhaps even impossible. But passably assured and decorative examples are fairly easy to produce, and juries-under the spell of trend and times-tend to award them their prizes. The jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous as a newel post. But the public has yet to acquire...
...Paradoxically, the companies that were fattest with profitable commercial and defense projects when the missile buildup began have moved the slowest into the new art, largely because they were too busy.with the present to spend time and money on the future. United's Horner candidly acknowledges that his company was in no rush to jump into rocket engines, because it had all it could do to keep ahead in the race to make better jets. "If we had gone into rockets, we might not have had our J-57-" said he, and the J-57, which powers almost...
More Satisfaction. Since then, Byrd has become a guitar adventurer. He has recorded guitar music of the 16th century for Washington Records, performed in concert halls including the National Gallery of Art. played his own flamenco guitar score for a production of Tennessee Williams' The Purification. He made a bow to jazz by playing in England and Saudi Arabia with the Woody Herman band, has also composed music for modern dance groups, and for the past two years has been combining classics and jazz at the Showboat...